Oh interesting, i haven’t heard that fluffy little bit of cope. Every publication I’ve seen that’s covering the initial NYT drop is confirming the results from 4 years of data and they have a dozen bullet points of explanation.

But I haven’t heard that very comfy sounding one yet, you have the podcast link or article i can dig into?

Watching this right now with my kids and I fucking skipped that episode. It’s somehow more disturbing than their inside-out mother.

Currently democrats are having a registration crisis while Republicans are having a boom, so pretty good?

Like you’d think those numbers would be opposite, maybe they are a continued indictment of the DNC democratic party that continues to ignore any candidate who has organic support like Mamdami.

https://www.newsweek.com/california-breaks-near-100-year-temperature-record-2110677

119 in SoCal, Indio and Palm Springs are still deserts tho.

Wow, waited half day for that, that’s a little depressing.

It’s super fun, though! Especially when the other person actually has a personality and is willing to mix it up.

No,i just find you personally distasteful and don’t mind that you know it.

Agreed, the entire system of tipping the American way should be fucking illegal. Wait staff should earn a living wage. I think it’s way more complicated than that, and you see pushback from the owners and the servers, and any movements to change it haven’t had enough backing socially to change anything.

But that’s kinda how it works, you choose to engage with it by going to an establishment with enployees that rely on tips. I mean hell, most of the time if you have a bad experience it’s due to something the waiter can’t control. Kitchen issues, staffing levels, poorly handled rushes. Being gleeful about how little you tip because of how things have changed… just don’t go out. Avoid having a shitty experience and being a shitty experience for someone else.

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This is for you love! So, at least one of your interactions wasn’t shitty in your life ❤️.

At least that’s something, I doubt you do that cause I’ve already seen your justification. Honestly the person handing you drink after drink at the bar, wondering if they need to finally cut you off doesn’t care. I’m guessing they’re just happy to be rid of you. Eat alone isn’t advice I need to give you… is it?

The expensive part is big. Inflation on bar and restaurant drinks is real. Drinks where I am are a minimum of 15 usd with 20-25 not being outside the realm of possibility. I started tipping 2 dollars a drink a few years ago at bars. But I’m not getting a dozen drinks, or drinking every day at bars, even every weekend.

I can see these tips really adding up if you do this a lot, especially restaurants where two people + tip for a couple that gets two drinks each is 120-150 usd all day. Wages aren’t exactly catching up to any of that.

Game 101? Wow, every comment worse “social pressure doesn’t work on me” you aren’t tipping Batman, you aren’t tipping Joker, you’re just a jerk who should be eating at home.

You should honestly stop going out at all, the person who is broken post covid is you. You’re taking it out on random wait staff you are choosing to patronize. Make your food yourself, drink your drinks at home, then the only person you’re making miserable is the person in the mirror.

Republicans and dems do this all the time in different states, it’s always performative. Both sides always threaten to arrest the other. This time, the Texas Republicans successfully got the warrants approved as of last Friday, so big surprise the dems are back.

Now instead of leaving, they’re having a sleepover to ensure they’ll be there fresh and ready for the vote.

If you want to see Newsome policy, look at PG&E. He talked a big game around 2019-2020 about holding them accountable after entire towns were destroyed, hundreds killed due to poor equipment replacement and maintenance practices. They were gonna be made public, fined into oblivion, etc…

He’s taken hundreds of thousands (could be millions) from them at this point and has not only created legislation to protect them against liability, but to destroy the consumer friendly solar buyback programs. He’s actually actively fucking residential rooftop solar in the state.

When people actually listened to how he thought on his podcast, they hated it. Now he’s flipped to this shit, and it’s working, and I hate it. This is where democratic national money will flow, into the rich boys pockets, rather than a dude like Mamdani.

Both parties have historically complained about voting machines after they lose. It was a big democratic thing in 2018 and 2019 because Dominion and another company were selling machines with known vulnerabilities. Now in 2025 post Trump win it’s the voting machines helping Republicans win again.

But no one, not even the liberals who refused to believe America was stupid enough to vote Trump in again, hate voting machines as much as Trump post 2020. You gotta remember that Dominion fucking washed Fox News in a multi billion dollar lawsuit. I’m positive that win against trumps position still stings and when he’s thinking of killing machines, he’s thinking of destroying Dominion.

Lmao, too hard!

I would have gone way harder on very specific ad hominems based on my perception of the other person. Maybe “enjoy that PB&J your mom made you”

Lmao, the pic of what you actually said is hilarious. You earned your ban by being a dick, not by having an unpopular opinion. As a fellow dick, I’m giving you an unvarnished opinion.

Unpopular opinions good! Vitriol with no substance bad!

Dude, totally fair, that was needlessly dickish on my part. I’m saying I think it’s more than likely she would be communicating her progress through the mod he made for her so he would know when to focus on the ring shit. She more than likely would have told him she was near to finishing.

This is a very similar to my dynamic, I’ve experienced entire TV series through the communicating of my partner because the stuff they are excited about comes up in conversation.

I’m sure plenty of couples don’t necessarily communicate like that despite not being broken and/or lonely.